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The aim is to explore how existing governance structures in AI perpetuate historical patterns of control and exclusion.

April 22, 2026Open Access

The Colonial Pattern: Whoever Writes the Rules Controls the Technology

Puntos clave

The aim is to explore how existing governance structures in AI perpetuate historical patterns of control and exclusion.
Analysis of AI governance relating to historical contexts, particularly IMF and World Bank dynamics in Uzbekistan.
Discussion of structural mechanisms in the creation and enforcement of AI governance rules.
Identified patterns of rule-making concentration that favor certain global powers.
Exposed the lack of representation and material power in the Global South concerning AI governance.
Demonstrated how these historical structures complicate the correction of AI governance issues.

Resumen

The institutions shaping AI governance are reproducing a pattern older than artificial intelligence itself: whoever writes the rules controls the technology. Drawing on direct experience of IMF and World Bank conditionality in 1990s Uzbekistan, this essay traces the structural mechanisms — rule-making concentration, extraction without representation, epistemic imposition — that make AI governance more difficult to correct than any previous cycle of internationally imposed standards. The Global South is not a geographic category but a structural position: consumption without design, subordination without representation, responsibility without control, sovereignty without material power. Essay 5 of the series Beyond Control: Theory of Limits of AI Governance by Oybek Khodjaev (INVEXI LLC, Tashkent, Uzbekistan). Full text: https://okhodjaev.com/essays/the-colonial-pattern/

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